Word: crazier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ward 37 at New York's St. Lawrence State Hospital, overlooking the seaway then abuilding, were all agitated and ill at ease, and one was frantic. A housemaid from Alabama by way of Chicago, she rushed up to the nurse supervisor, shouting: "Mrs. Holmes has gone crazy-crazier than we are-she won't lock the door!" As a matter of fact, Attendant Irene Holmes was doing just what the doctor ordered. First, the doors of individual wards, then of whole buildings, were being unlocked and left unlocked for lengthening periods up to twelve hours...
Ashcan School. Crazier still were the neighbors, who complained that the bongos and other assorted beatnik activities were giving Venice a bad name. After police ruled only that Owner Matthews must have an entertainment license for the Gas House, the townspeople shuddered, got their Venice Civic Union to fight the licensing. The beatniks sent for the Civil Liberties Union, and after generously beautifying Venice's alleys by painting vivid abstractions on garbage cans, got ready for battle...
...survive in the jungle of jazz, a performer must be different. Not many years ago, a jazzman could accomplish this by simply playing faster or higher or crazier than the rest, or by having a "dirty" style
What made Harry crazier than anything was the thought of Stanford White, and what he had done to "Boofuls." He spoke of nothing but revenge, and one night in the cabaret on the roof of the old Madison Square Garden, he walked up to Stanford White's table, whipped out a little gold .22 and fired three bullets into the seducer's face and chest. "I did it," he said in a loud voice as White slumped in death, "because he ruined my wife and then deserted the girl...
...meet at the border and duel to the death with pistols. "If he hates me, then why not settle it this way?" grumbled Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho'') Somoza, who claims to be the best shot in his tough, U.S. Marine-trained Gnardia National. "He's crazier than a goat in the midsummer sun," replied Costa Rica's José ("Pepe") Figueres. an M.I.T.-trained coffee planter...